Essex - Sonic Boom

[Mattygooner]

Someone just went ballistic over essex...

[Scabutz]

They'll be flying rubber dog sts out of Hong Kong if they do that again.

[Mattygooner]

Anyone got the Military flight radar and can enlighten us?

[Dr Jekyll]

Suspect passenger on Ryanair flight into Stansted, suspect even by Ryanair standards so RAF Typhoon scrambled to see what one earth was going on. All a false alarm apparently.

[anonymous-user]

Heard this whilst cleaning the car, near Basildon. Was quite a bang as well!

[SpudLink]

Apparently a drunken Jet2 passenger.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-487326...

[Zarco]

SpudLink said:

Apparently a drunken Jet2 passenger.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-487326...

WTF?

[Scabutz]

Zarco said:

SpudLink said:

Apparently a drunken Jet2 passenger.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-487326...

WTF?

Police quote makes it sound like they mean the airliner made the sonic boom. Probably just a badly worded quote but that how it sounds.

Also. A large number of 999 calls? I've never heard a sonic boom but I'm pretty sure if I did I wouldn't be phoning 999. "999 what's your emergency?", "Err, I heard a load noise " .....

[NewNameNeeded]

Scabutz said:

Also. A large number of 999 calls? I've never heard a sonic boom but I'm pretty sure if I did I wouldn't be phoning 999. "999 what's your emergency?", "Err, I heard a load noise " .....

Having heard it it doesn't surprise me. It sounded a little bit like an explosion (but sort of more hollow, if that makes sense) it was VERY loud, and we also felt a pressure wave with it. It slammed doors in our house.

[pip t]

If we start launching QRA jets for every drunken passenger on a budget airline flight it’s going to get VERY noisy.....!

What happened on this one to provoke such a reaction?

[anonymous-user]

NewNameNeeded said:

Scabutz said:

Also. A large number of 999 calls? I've never heard a sonic boom but I'm pretty sure if I did I wouldn't be phoning 999. "999 what's your emergency?", "Err, I heard a load noise " .....

Having heard it it doesn't surprise me. It sounded a little bit like an explosion (but sort of more hollow, if that makes sense) it was VERY loud, and we also felt a pressure wave with it. It slammed doors in our house.

Is suggest it’s the so called ‘moron response’ from those who reactively call 999 when they just don’t understand the basics of life.

[Scabutz]

pip t said:

If we start launching QRA jets for every drunken passenger on a budget airline flight it’s going to get VERY noisy.....!

What happened on this one to provoke such a reaction?

Certainly seems like there is more to it. There must be drunk tts on flights every week. Few require an escort. Also for them to go supersonic over the mainland must be odd.

There is a 9/11 documentary that they show every year with recordings from various places. When they realise there are planes in the sky and they arent responding they scramble jets. They go the wrong way and then are then turned around and told to boot it. The pilot checks and the person on the ground says I dont care how many windows you break. Seems to me, that it's not usual to go full tilt to escort an airliner. Maybe I'm wrong.

[ashleyman]

I imagine a person tried to get access to the cabin and if successful they’d have shot the plane down?

[MitchT]

NewNameNeeded said:

Scabutz said:

Also. A large number of 999 calls? I've never heard a sonic boom but I'm pretty sure if I did I wouldn't be phoning 999. "999 what's your emergency?", "Err, I heard a load noise " .....

Having heard it it doesn't surprise me. It sounded a little bit like an explosion (but sort of more hollow, if that makes sense) it was VERY loud, and we also felt a pressure wave with it. It slammed doors in our house.

I heard one many years ago - I was in Southport walking down Lord Street. It was like nothing else I've ever heard... maybe like a block of granite the size of a large building had just dropped from a great height and landed on the ground right behind me. The noise and the sensation is extraordinary - you can't relate it to anything rational so it doesn't surprise me if people's reactions aren't rational.

[Chuck328]

pip t said:

If we start launching QRA jets for every drunken passenger on a budget airline flight it’s going to get VERY noisy.....!

What happened on this one to provoke such a reaction?

The highest level of threat in flight is an attempt to breach the flight deck door. If that happens (and I'd expect the pilots to report it) I wouldn't be surprised if the fighters were launched, Maybe she started a thumping....I doubt it.

The next level after that is life threatening behaviour. Was she that dangerous? I doubt it.

No Idea why jets were scrambled.

[ambuletz]

Chuck328 said:

The highest level of threat in flight is an attempt to breach the flight deck door. If that happens (and I'd expect the pilots to report it) I wouldn't be surprised if the fighters were launched, Maybe she started a thumping....I doubt it.

The next level after that is life threatening behaviour. Was she that dangerous? I doubt it.

No Idea why jets were scrambled.

what exactly would the jets do though? even if it was as extreme as a terrorist situation they'd shoot it out the sky perhaps? needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

[Jonnny]

ambuletz said:

Chuck328 said:

The highest level of threat in flight is an attempt to breach the flight deck door. If that happens (and I'd expect the pilots to report it) I wouldn't be surprised if the fighters were launched, Maybe she started a thumping....I doubt it.

The next level after that is life threatening behaviour. Was she that dangerous? I doubt it.

No Idea why jets were scrambled.

what exactly would the jets do though? even if it was as extreme as a terrorist situation they'd shoot it out the sky perhaps? needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

Probably a very good deterrent to the imbecile on board, drunk or not.. When a fighter jet turns up on the wing of the plane you're causing a ruckus on, it'll bring you back down to reality quite quickly I imagine.

[SpudLink]

MitchT said:

NewNameNeeded said:

Scabutz said:

Also. A large number of 999 calls? I've never heard a sonic boom but I'm pretty sure if I did I wouldn't be phoning 999. "999 what's your emergency?", "Err, I heard a load noise " .....

Having heard it it doesn't surprise me. It sounded a little bit like an explosion (but sort of more hollow, if that makes sense) it was VERY loud, and we also felt a pressure wave with it. It slammed doors in our house.

I heard one many years ago - I was in Southport walking down Lord Street. It was like nothing else I've ever heard... maybe like a block of granite the size of a large building had just dropped from a great height and landed on the ground right behind me. The noise and the sensation is extraordinary - you can't relate it to anything rational so it doesn't surprise me if people's reactions aren't rational.

I heard a sonic boom for the first time last year. The only similar sound I’ve heard was a terrorist bomb nearly 40 years ago. (The IRA bomb at Harrods.). So I’m not surprised people called 999.
I imagine if you live near an RAF base you’d automatically dismiss it for what it is, but if you live in a quiet Essex village, you wouldn’t necessarily know.

[DavieBNL]

Ridiculous when you think about it, an Airbus tanker and two Typhoons launched for a drunk woman, eh, what is going on? What were the Typhoons ever realistically going to do and how much did all that cost the taxpayer?

[wazztie16]

I heard a sonic boom in Lincolnshire whilst out delivering once, I did see the plane beforehand and realised what was happening, but with the noise it made, I had the windows up in the van and the music on, I still heard it loudly. And it was the first one I'd ever heard.

I can definitely see why people phoned 999,